Leslie PrestoExperience Designer

Leslie is a multifaceted experience designer who enjoys creating with world-shakers, game changers, modern-day Plato’s and Rumi’s to help inspire, motivate, and innovate through witty interactive design.

LPresto CreativeJune 2012 - Present

Continually conceptualizing, designing, and developing experiences to help engage and inspire audiences through multiple channels of communication.

Major Clients: SAP Fieldglass, Pognae, Candy Morales Fitness

Service & Experience Design Consultant

DresscodeableJanuary 2017 - June 2017

Collaborated in recruitment efforts to help build and grow an inspiring and thriving team.

Helped drive team communication to help reduce areas of ambiguity.

Shepherded Dresscodeable’s company goals, visions, and strategies along with its business and product goals, visions, and strategies, user research, marketing & social media strategies, design, and much more.

Brought ideas and visions into conceptual fruition.

Consistently created solutions across all areas of the company, business, and product.

Worked with team to define conversational tone and information distribution opportunities.

Demonstrated the ability to transform strategic direction into compelling and cohesive visions. (This work hasn't been published to the public and is not work you currently see on dresscodeable.com)

Senior User Experience Designer, Consultant

RR DonnelleyNovember 2016 - April 2017

Worked within Agile Methodology.

Analyzed issues within current business process to develop improved service design through internal ux design operations and client facing UI/UX solutions.

Worked closely with creative director, business analysts, product analysts, and developers to help minimize as much visual and functional risk by communicating visual, interactive, and strategic directions as well as intended flow to the team.

Worked with cross-functional teams within different time zones to assess and prioritize opportunities, constraints, features, requirements, and initial and future concepts.

Recommendations

Leslie is simply amazing. She is a fantastic UX designer with advanced skills in every phase of UX. From initial research, to flow modeling, to visual and interaction design, to specification and implementation support, she is incredibly thoughtful, thorough, detailed and precise. Leslie is also incredibly technically proficient. Not only did she build out Adobe CC Libraries for our entire design system but she also updated all the icons and symbols in our custom system font, introduced Trello for UX team workflow and collaboration, and more. She's a tech wiz and will bring great processes, tools and efficiency ideas. On the personal side, she is warm, friendly and a total pleasure to work with. She was a fantastic addition to our team as she would be to any team. I would hire her again in a second.

Worked closely with interactive directors, project managers, business analysts, product analysts, and developers to help minimize as much visual and functional risk by communicating visual and strategic directions as well as intended flow to the team.

Worked with cross-functional teams within different time zones to assess and prioritize opportunities, constraints, features, requirements, initial and future concepts.

Recommendations

Leslie is a joy to work with. She is an extremely detailed oriented interactive designer who can wear multiple hats on even the most complex enterprise applications. Her ability to work with clients directly to understand their business needs and then translate them into beautiful user interfaces is impressive. Leslie is the type of designer who is always pushing herself to not only be skilled at her creative endeavors, but also technology. It is rare that a designer wants to jump in and code HTML and JavaScript - but Leslie understands that any interactive designer must truly understand all aspects of the digital space to be successful.

Recommendations

Since this was a quick engagement, strong organization and time management skills were extremely important. Leslie demonstrated her ability to manage and organize usability testing sessions, but more importantly, participate as the sole observer during the sessions. Leslie's observations played a crucial role in the success of the usability study. Leslie is extremely committed to her work and holds herself to only the highest of standards.

Recommendations

I worked closely with Leslie on the Metro Bank project. As the project lead, she liased between the clients, developers, animators and designers across multiple timezones, enabling us to collaborate effectively. A meticulous planner, she made sure everything was organised and on schedule. Though she had a lot of responsibilities, she never shied away from sharing the workload. She was always fair while dividing the work and never considered any task to be below her. Her warm and friendly personality made me feel welcome in a new and unfamiliar city. Leslie was a dream to work with and I hope to work with her again soon!

Product Designer, Consultant

Calero SoftwareAugust 2014 - November 2015

Analyzed issues within current business process to develop improved service design through internal ux design operations and client facing UI/UX solutions.

Worked closely with client to capture and satisfy user requirements.

Worked closely with project manager, business analysts, and developers to help minimize as much visual and functional risk by communicating visual, interactive, and strategic directions as well as intended flow to the team.

Worked with cross-functional teams within different time zones to assess and prioritize opportunities, constraints, features, requirements, initial and future concepts.

Conceptualized and spearheaded the application’s design system and visual style guides all encompassing all of the following: information architecture, user flows, interaction design, visual design, and much more.

Used the synergistic power of teamwork and servant leadership to achieve best UX strategies and results for a heavy data driven telecommunication application.

Created and maintained a central hub for all design styles and rules for the application for developers and designers.

Organized final client delivery for client and team in the form of an internal website to assist with finding all current files/specifications/guides to effectively overcome organizational blocks of ambiguity.

Recommendations

Since day one, Leslie quickly brought me up to speed on Calero, the team, product owners, guidelines, and the overall gestalt of the project. As an incredibly talented and well-rounded designer, Leslie has gone above and beyond the "requirements". She infuses purpose within her design and brings inspiration to the table. Leslie is simply nimble, intuitive by design, and a pleasure to know both in and outside of the office!